Right i have found that suse works out of the box for dual display, or at least for me it does. Thats something that impressed me because i know on systems that don't it can be a lot of hassle to setup.

Anyway for some reason when i fire up my laptop on the bios screen it will show on the projectors smartboard normally filling exactly the screen size (1024x768) and when it loads the suse loading screen it projects exactly as it should do also.

But as soon as it gets in to X it stretches so its kind of like wide screen and it stretches so much the last bit on the right hand side is missing off the screen.

How do i fix this? I have it set in yast on the dual display bit to set the second monitor (projector) to 1024x768 and vesa which is like generic isn't it? I didn't bother to look up the projector on the list because i'll be using it with different projectors.

I have smartboard software working well (surprisingly) so its annoying i can't get the res right and my xorg.conf file seems to be as expected?

I was doing a presentation last week and had the external cable connected while booting and I got a blank screen after BIOS untill KDE started, and then the top and bottom were chopped off on the LCD, the projector was fine. I moved the mouse to the bottom of the screen to scroll the desktop.

I fixed the problem by restarting the computer with the external projector disconnected, and plugging it in after KDE started (Acer 5104, AMD Radeon Xpress 1100, 8.33.6 drivers).

BTW, which smartboard software are you using?

hey thanks for the reply i guess that could work i will try it, becuase im sure it has worked normally with the projectors before.

As for the software i am running the latest edition of the official Smartboard software, you can get it here:-

http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/S...BSv95Linux.htm

Works a treat i was really surprised how easily it installed etc. I extracted the tarball and it gives you a directory with lots of files in it and 2 shell scripts. The first runs and then brings up the graphical installer and the second does the same thing but brings up the installer for teacher resources, like with XP you choose with resources you want and it downloads them